Science & Data

Beginning in 2026, GARFO will be producing a year-end assessment of fishery catch utilization for the prior fishing year. Below you can find the report for the 2025 fishing year and an archived report for the 2024 fishing year. Please note that the fishing year varies across fisheries, so each report will reflect the fishing year for the subject fishery (for example, in the 2025 report, the summer flounder entry reflects the time period January 1-December 31, 2025, while the monkfish entry reflects the time period May 1, 2025-April 30, 2026). We are providing this information to share and track the utilization of commercial fishery quotas, recreational fishery catch, and overall catch utilization for managed fisheries in the Greater Atlantic Region. The list of species is focused on active fisheries managed by the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils. We are including estimates of total ex-vessel revenue based on commercial landings and an annual average of the reported ex-vessel price paid during the year, and this estimate does not reflect seasonal or regional variability in prices or revenue. The "unrealized value" column reflects the potential value of unharvested commercial quota if that quota had been landed based on the average ex-vessel price described above.

American Samoa and Hawaiʻi longline reports include data on observer coverage for vessel departures, vessels arriving with observers, protected species interactions, and set and hook unit effort for vessels arriving with observers.

This database contains historic adult return, adult stocking, juvenile stocking, egg production, and aquaculture data for Atlantic salmon in New England Rivers.

2025 Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation report for groundfish fisheries of Alaska.

This assessment summarizes and synthesizes climate, biological, and fishing effects on the shelf and slope regions of the Gulf of Alaska, from an ecosystem perspective, and to provides an assessment of the possible future.

Logbook summary reports for the 2023 calendar year.

The Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory conducts annual crewed aircraft and vessel surveys to known terrestrial Steller sea lion rookery and haulout sites in Alaska to collect visual counts and high-resolution imagery.

Essential Fish Habitat shapefiles for download in zip format

Results from the annual Northern Shrimp survey (1983 - present) conducted by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center.